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Rezagholi, Mahmoud. "Cost-Efficient Designs for Assessing Work-Related Biomechanical Exposures." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-185526.

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Work-related disorders due to biomechanical exposures have been subject to extensive research. Studies addressing these exposures have, however, paid limited attention to an efficient use of resources in exposure assessment. The present thesis investigates cost-efficient procedures for assessment of work-related biomechanical exposures, i.e. procedures aiming at a proper balance between statistical and economic performance. Paper I is a systematic review of tools used in literature providing cost-efficient data collection designs. Two main approaches were identified in nine publications, i.e.

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Gonzalez, Hernandez Ana. "Site-level resource efficiency analysis." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/284771.

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To achieve agreed targets for reducing global carbon emissions, industry must become more resource-efficient. To this end, two viable strategies exist: energy efficiency and material efficiency. Despite their inherent interdependence, industry continues to treat these two strategies as isolated pursuits, providing in the process only a partial insight into the potential of resource efficiency. To resolve this disconnect, this thesis attempts to develop and apply tools that help integrate industrial energy and material efficiency analyses. Three areas of research are explored. The first is conc

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Amaral, Marcelo. "Improving resource efficiency in virtualized datacenters." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/666753.

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In recent years there has been an extraordinary growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its protocols. The increasing diffusion of electronic devices with identification, computing and communication capabilities is laying ground for the emergence of a highly distributed service and networking environment. The above mentioned situation implies that there is an increasing demand for advanced IoT data management and processing platforms. Such platforms require support for multiple protocols at the edge for extended connectivity with the objects, but also need to exhibit uniform internal data

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Xu, Yunjian. "Efficiency loss in resource allocation games." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77098.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2012.<br>Cataloged from department-submitted PDF version of thesis. This electronic version was submitted and approved by the author's academic department as part of an electronic thesis pilot project. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-176).<br>The overarching goals of this thesis are to quantify the efficiency loss due to market participant strategic behavior, and to design proper pricing mechanisms tha

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Prudnikova, N. "Efficiency of Resource Potential of Enterprises." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2017. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/8445.

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Sikorska, Małgorzata, P. G. Pererva, and Kristina Kiss. "Efficiency of the enterprise resource potential." Thesis, Національний технічний університет "Харківський політехнічний інститут", 2018. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/39583.

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The economic value of the results obtained is to improve the methodological approaches to the diagnosis of the resource potential of light industry enterprises and the further development of theoretical aspects of the diagnosis of the enterprise.

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Mohamed, Omer Yusuf Adam. "Resource Allocation for Improved Performance and Resource Efficiency in Cloud Computing." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17596.

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Allocating resources for applications is attributed to cost-efficiency measures only in the light of two other factors of paramount importance, namely application performance achieved and resource efficiency associated. Achieving satisfactory performance within QoS requirements is indeed the foremost objective to attain for any given application. However, the efficiency obtained for the relevant deployed resources is equally critical as it determines to what extent a resource allocation decision was comparable to optimality, and hence may be perceived cost-efficient in that regard. Achieving h

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SÖDERBÄRG, KARL. "Industry 4.0 to enhance lean resource efficiency." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-299625.

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This paper is a practical and empirical investigation into the relationship and overlap between the two industrial paradigms of Lean Management and Industry 4.0. This is accomplished with an in-depth case study of a goods receipt to identify Lean wastes and accompanied by a discussion on how these wastes can be eliminated by enhancing the processes and material flows with Industry 4.0 technologies. It was found that efforts to enhance a process with Industry 4.0 Technologies should be preceded by ensuring that the process can be performed in a standardized manner. After that the study recommen

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Söderbärg, Karl. "Industry 4.0 to enhance lean resource efficiency." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-301241.

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This paper is a practical and empirical investigation into the relationship and overlap between the two industrial paradigms of Lean Management and Industry 4.0. This is accomplished with an in-depth case study of a goods receipt to identify Lean wastes and accompanied by a discussion on how these wastes can be eliminated by enhancing the processes and material flows with Industry 4.0 technologies. It was found that efforts to enhance a process with Industry 4.0 Technologies should be preceded by ensuring that the process can be performed in a standardized manner. After that the study recommen

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Atici, Kazim Baris. "Using data envelopment analysis for the efficiency and elasticity evaluation of agricultural farms." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/54354/.

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Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a well-established relative efficiency measurement technique, which has been widely applied to evaluate the technical efficiency of agricultural units in different countries by focusing on different aspects of agricultural production. This research deals with the evaluation of efficiency through DEA in non-homogeneous agricultural production, where units produce a wide range of different outputs. The objectives are threefold. Firstly, we propose a novel methodological approach of integrating the production trade-offs concept of DEA into non-homogeneous agricu

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Ullah, Amjad. "Towards a novel biologically-inspired cloud elasticity framework." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/26064.

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With the widespread use of the Internet, the popularity of web applications has significantly increased. Such applications are subject to unpredictable workload conditions that vary from time to time. For example, an e-commerce website may face higher workloads than normal during festivals or promotional schemes. Such applications are critical and performance related issues, or service disruption can result in financial losses. Cloud computing with its attractive feature of dynamic resource provisioning (elasticity) is a perfect match to host such applications. The rapid growth in the usage of

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Freeman, Rachel A. J. "The dynamics of consumption, resource use and waste : systems approaches to resource efficiency." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.690776.

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Resource efficiency (RE) is a characteristics of the way resources such as energy and materials are used within everyday activities and it is a critical concern for those working in the fields of climate change mitigation and environmental protection. Resource efficiency affects the rates at which resources are extracted from sources and waste streams such as greenhouse gas emissions and material wastes are generated. This thesis presents six studies in which methods from the fields of management, engineering, and systems thinking were used to evaluate and expand upon existing waste prevention

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Mäkinen, L. (Liisa). "Improvement of resource efficiency in deinked pulp mill." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2013. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526201337.

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Abstract Paper recycling is an ecological strategy for disposing of waste paper, but more importantly, recovered paper is an important source of raw material in the paper and board industry. Deinked pulp production from recovered paper has proved economically viable by comparison with virgin fibre pulp manufacturing, but this viability is now threatened by increasing waste disposal costs, as up to 25% of the raw material available for deinked pulp production can end up in the reject streams, which then have to be disposed of. The most common practice at present is incineration and disposal of

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Tobler, Gabriel, and Josefsson Simon. "Product Modularity and its Effect on Resource Efficiency." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-216772.

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Ionescu, Lucian [Verfasser]. "Robust Efficiency of Airline Resource Schedules / Lucian Ionescu." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1156265231/34.

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Johari, Ramesh 1976. "Efficiency loss in market mechanisms for resource allocation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/16694.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2004.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-249).<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>This thesis addresses a problem at the nexus of engineering, computer science, and economics: in large scale, decentralized systems, how can we efficiently allocate scarce resources among competing interests? On one hand, constraints are imposed on the system designer by the in

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Kihlman, Jonas. "On the resource efficiency of kraft lignin extraction." Licentiate thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för ingenjörs- och kemivetenskaper (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-81473.

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Lignin is regarded as a promising raw material for the production of biobased products, such as chemicals, materials and fuels, and will most probably be a key component in future lignocellulosic biorefineries. This thesis examines the lignin extraction process in a kraft pulp mill, the technologies that are available for this purpose, and the impact made on the mill. Several different kraft lignin extraction processes and technologies are currently available and are basically linear: chemicals are brought from outside the mill and introduced into the process and the mill balance. Depending on

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Chong, Kar M. "Resource allocation and efficiency in public sector audits." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2000. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1541.

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In recent years, the push for reform in the Australian public sector audit has placed the Office of the Auditor-General (hereafter OAG) in a more contestable or market- like environment, where the OAG is accountable for an efficient and effective provision of public sector audit. The purpose of this study is to compare the cost efficiency of in-house and contract-out arrangements to deliver financial audits in the public sector. It empirically tests whether there are audit cost and audit fee differences between in-house providers (i.e., the OAG) and contractors (i.e., public accounting firms).

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Gupta, Vishal. "System abstractions for resource scaling on heterogeneous platforms." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/50348.

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The increasingly diverse nature of modern applications makes it critical for future systems to have dynamic resource scaling capabilities which enable them to adapt their resource usage to meet user requirements. Such mechanisms should be both fine-grained in nature for resource-efficient operation and also provide a high scaling range to support a variety of applications with diverse needs. To this end, heterogeneous platforms, consisting of components with varying characteristics, have been proposed to provide improved performance/efficiency than homogeneous configurations, by making it poss

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Runsewe, Olubisi A. "A Novel Cloud Broker-based Resource Elasticity Management and Pricing for Big Data Streaming Applications." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39251.

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The pervasive availability of streaming data from various sources is driving todays’ enterprises to acquire low-latency big data streaming applications (BDSAs) for extracting useful information. In parallel, recent advances in technology have made it easier to collect, process and store these data streams in the cloud. For most enterprises, gaining insights from big data is immensely important for maintaining competitive advantage. However, majority of enterprises have diﬃculty managing the multitude of BDSAs and the complex issues cloud technologies present, giving rise to the incorporation o

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Reiser, Axel. "Resource efficiency of the ski industry in New Zealand." Lincoln University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/1266.

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Skiing and snowboarding are popular recreation activities in New Zealand, as well as constituting important components of the winter tourism product. The 2001 snow season witnessed record visitor numbers. Skier days have increased by more than 10% compared with the previous year to 1.254 million. The traditionally “nature related” activity of skiing, however has increasingly often been discussed in the light of excessive resource consumption and pollution of alpine environments. Since no research on resource efficient management of ski fields has been undertaken in New Zealand, this study exam

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Nguyen, Long. "Resource management for wireless communications : an energy efficiency approach." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2018. https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/resource-management-for-wireless-communications-an-energy-efficiency-approach(d4a07b46-7470-45e5-888e-16567a96cef9).html.

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It is envisioned that the fifth generation (5G) networks will support the massive amount of data, reduce energy consumption and satisfy highly demanding quality-of-service (QoS). This can be achieved by integrating the key enabling technologies such as massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) (i.e., the use of a massive number of antennas to provide high spectral efficiency for users), multi-cell massive MIMO (i.e., the ability to serve a larger number of users simultaneously), small cells with low-cost and flexible deployment (i.e.,the provision of better coverage and network performance

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Costa, Matteo. "Resource energy efficiency measures for retail sector in Azerbaijan." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-264251.

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The thesis work is part of a larger project financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and awarded by RINA Consulting S.p.A.. Azeri Retail will receive the loan from EBRD in order to refurbish its six new acquisitions in Baku, Azerbaijan. Azeri Retail considers the current Fresco format store a good technological and structural level, therefore Azeri Retail would like to replicate this state also for the new acquisitions. The thesis objective is to understand and analyse the current energy efficiency state and consequently propose some resource efficiency measures

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Idris, Fakrulradzi. "Resource allocation for energy efficient device-to-device communications." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2019. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/resource-allocation-for-energy-efficient-devicetodevice-communications(fe38ee57-5947-497e-a744-373937f7f9ab).html.

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Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is one of the technologies for next generation communication system. Unlike traditional cellular network, D2D allows proximity users to communicate directly with each other without routing the data through a base station. The main aim of this study is to improve the overall energy efficiency (EE) of D2D communications overlaying cellular system. To reduce the complexity of joint EE optimization, we decompose the main EE problem into two subproblems; resource efficiency (RE) optimization in the first stage and EE optimization for D2D pairs in the second stag

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Schranzhofer, Andreas [Verfasser]. "Efficiency and predictability in resource sharing multicore systems / Andreas Schranzhofer." Aachen : Shaker, 2011. http://d-nb.info/107408800X/34.

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Balwani, Siddharth (Siddharth Vashdev). "Operational efficiency through resource planning optimization and work process improvement." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78490.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division; and, (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, 2012.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-85).<br>This thesis covers work done at National Grid to improve resource planning and the execution of pipeline construction and maintenance work carried out at the yards. Resource Planning, the art of picking the right jobs for the right days and assigning the right cr

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Parmar, Anisha. "Exploiting resource use efficiency and resilience in ancient wheat species." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2014. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14515/.

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Modern bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) initially derived from wild progenitors which underwent hybridisation and domestication events. It is hypothesised that modern plant breeding has reduced the genetic variation among modern cultivars (Sparkes, 2010). Ancient wheat species form a conduit between wild ancient wheat and cultivated Triticum species, and may harbour the genetic variation required to supplement the modern bread wheat gene pool. The current work investigated a range of morphological and physiological aspects of several ancient species including several representatives of spelt, e

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Torba, I. "Optimization of ecological and economic efficiency of water resource reclaiming." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2017. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/65304.

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Reclaimed water or recycled water (wastewater reuse or water reclamation) is the process of converting wastewater into water that can be reused for other purposes. This process can include agricultural, landscape and field irrigation purposes or even replenishing surface water and groundwater, also referred to as groundwater recharge.

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Torba, I. "Optimization of ecological and economic efficiency of water resource reclaiming." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2017. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/66248.

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Reclaimed water or recycled water (wastewater reuse or water reclamation) is the process of converting wastewater into water that can be reused for other purposes. This process can include agricultural, landscape and field irrigation purposes or even replenishing surface water and groundwater, also referred to as groundwater recharge.

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Thangamani, Dillip. "Systematic Methodology for Improving the Resource Efficiency in Manufacturing Industries." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1450147407.

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Björkman, Nilsson John, and Jonatan Cervall. "Drones without a master : Resource efficiency in consensus-reaching topologies." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-259356.

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In this study we have compared five different heuristic algorithms for adding edges to existing graphs with the goal of improving convergence rate for reaching consensus. This while keeping the cost of adding edges, and thus sending more signals, in mind. Finding a suitable algorithm for this purpose would equate to monetary cost savings and inference speed in multi-agent networks. The study found that simulated annealing performed the best with regards to finding the best solution on multiple graphs, performing the best in average and time complexity of finding the solutions. However, it was

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Chen, Xuetao. "Resource Allocation for Wireless Distributed Computing Networks." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77054.

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Wireless distributed computing networks (WDCNs) will become the next frontier of the wireless industry as the performance of wireless platforms is being increased every year and wireless industries are looking for "killer" applications for increased channel capacity. However, WDCNs have several unique problems compared with currently well-investigated methods for wireless sensor networks and wired distributed computing. For example, it is difficult for WDCNs to be power/energy efficient considering the uncertainty and heterogeneity of the wireless environment. In addition, the service model ha

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Zwan, F. M. van der. "Integrated solutions as a new perspective for eco efficient services : a cross industry exploration." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274181.

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Lieder, Michael. "From resource efficiency to resource conservation : Studies, developments and recommendations for industrial implementation of circular manufacturing systems." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Industriell produktion, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-212923.

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Manufacturing industry is under permanent pressure to maintain its economic growth and profitability as strong societal backbone. At the same time pressures of waste generation and resource consumption are increasing as result of manufacturing operations. Since manufacturing industry is one of the major consumers of natural resources it is therefore essential to reduce dependency on natural resources by decoupling economic growth from consumption. Resource efficiency approaches can improve the performance of production systems by reducing resource losses. However, the fundamental assumption at

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Sharkey, Joseph James. "Resource management techniques for performance and energy efficiency in multithreaded processors." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2006.

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Lieder, Michael. "Integrated evaluation of resource efficiency and cost effectiveness in production systems." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Produktionssystem, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-144289.

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Improved use of resources is of enormously high relevance and crucial for achieving as well as maintaining a sustainable condition. Especially industrial production has a superior responsibility in creating a long-term viable way of living. However, there is a lack of systematic evaluation procedures for operational resources in production systems, meaning product material, energy, equipment and humans. Especially small and medium-sized enterprises, representing the largest number of all companies in Europe, are mostly not able to deal with these kinds of issues in addition to their daily busi

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Pirisola, Isaac. "Maximising resource efficiency for the manufacture of lamellar based consumer products." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2014. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/2003579/.

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The work disseminated within this Thesis pertain to an industrially funded study whose primary aims were to enhance the understanding of the effect of a range of process variables on the underlying microstructure of a rinse-off Hair Conditioner. The study utilised a range of analytical techniques namely; rheology, microscopy, SAXS and thermal transition. Findings herein have demonstrated that through process optimisation, more resource efficient processes are achievable which offer the possibility to significantly reduce raw materials use whilst maintaining a desired viscosity. In some cases a

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Talampas, Joseph P. "Electricity sensors for resource efficiency and supply chain visibility in factories." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122600.

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Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2019, In conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT<br>Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2019, In conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 53-54).<br>Cost pressures on factories and the growing movement towards sustainability are key motivations behind Li & Fung's (LF) drive towards innovation. Supply chain digitalization t

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Lv, Jing. "Resource Allocation in Underlay and Overlay Spectrum Sharing." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-159087.

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As the wireless communication technologies evolve and the demand of wireless services increases, spectrum scarcity becomes a bottleneck that limits the introduction of new technologies and services. Spectrum sharing between primary and secondary users has been brought up to improve spectrum efficiency. In underlay spectrum sharing, the secondary user transmits simultaneously with the primary user, under the constraint that the interference induced at the primary receiver is below a certain threshold, or a certain primary rate requirement has to be satisfied. Specifically, in this thesis, the c

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Perera, Kevin. "The Resource Efficiency Paradox : A Case Study of the Guerdane Irrigation Project in Morocco." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-414629.

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How can we explain the paradoxical outcomes of resource efficiency? As a key pillar of worldwide sustainable development policies, the concept of resource efficiency has become increasingly important to scrutinize. The overreliance on efficiency coupled with the intention of conserving scarce resources can sometimes backfire. Understanding the intermediate process that leads to the negative, paradoxical outcome is imperative for a sustainable future, especially for societies that risks resource degradation. This study takes the explanatory route and aims to problematize the usage of efficient

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Pietri, Ilia. "Cost-efficient resource management for scientific workflows on the cloud." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/costefficient-resource-management-for-scientific-workflows-on-the-cloud(4cfe73ce-1de9-411b-8288-f463d6b52680).html.

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Scientific workflows are used in many scientific fields to abstract complex computations (tasks) and data or flow dependencies between them. High performance computing (HPC) systems have been widely used for the execution of scientific workflows. Cloud computing has gained popularity by offering users on-demand provisioning of resources and providing the ability to choose from a wide range of possible configurations. To do so, resources are made available in the form of virtual machines (VMs), described as a set of resource characteristics, e.g. amount of CPU and memory. The notion of VMs enab

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Nkegbe, Paul Kwame. "Resource conservation practices : adoption and productive efficiency among smallholders in northern Ghana." Thesis, University of Reading, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.553078.

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The people of northern Ghana are poor peasants depending almost exclusively on natural resources for their livelihoods. The poverty is caused partly by inadequate water availability and deteriorating soil conditions. As a result, various organizations promote the use of soil and water conservation practices in the area, but the link between the use of the practices and fanner efficiency is yet to be shown empirically. The current study thus set out to broadly investigate the factors that motivate farmers' adoption of resource conservation practices in northern Ghana and assess its effect on th

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Greenwell, Avis. "An institutional analysis of voluntary regulation : examining resource efficiency initiatives 1997-2001." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2006. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1957/.

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The potential global consequences of rates of resource consumption in modern economies have prompted several governments to use forms of voluntary regulation to promote improved resource efficiency within the firm. The UK government outsourced a wide programme to encourage waste minimisation. Part of this promoted local 'waste minimisation clubs' (now called resource efficiency clubs) which worked with members to achieve simultaneous reductions in materials and energy use, and in costs. More than 80 were run. Typically, intermediaries (some from universities) helped establish local partnership

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Hui, Wing-to, and 許永渡. "Factors affecting the efficiency of human resource utilization in shopping centre management." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47182465.

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One of the key factors that determines the success of a shopping centre is how efficient are its human resources utilized to maximize its value. This study investigates how corporate business strategies, as reflected in the perceptions and beliefs of shopping centre managerial staff, affect management efficiency, which is defined as efficiency of human resource utilization in shopping centre management. We measure the management efficiency of a shopping centre’s management by comparing inputs and outputs using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The inputs are defined as the different types

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Mwale, Simon S. "Resource use efficiency of bambara groundnut landraces in response to soil water." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.415492.

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Terris, Darcey Dickinson. "MAXIMIZING EFFICIENCY IN RISK ADJUSTMENT UNDER CONDITIONS OF UNCERTAINTY AND RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1174432210.

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Court, Craig A. "Improving the energy efficiency of microprocessor cores through accurate resource utilisation prediction." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/9785.

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CMOS technology scaling improves the speed and functionality of microprocessors by reducing the size of transistors. Static power dissipation also increases as a result of scaling however, and has been identified as a limiting factor in technology scaling. As current technology approaches that limit, techniques are required both at the technology-level and in the architecture design to reduce sub-threshold leakage, which accounts for the majority of static power dissipation. This thesis presents an approach to predict the idle periods of execution units at runtime and power-gate them during th

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Al-Ayish, Nadia. "Environmental Impact of Concrete Structures - with Focus on Durability and Resource Efficiency." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Byggnadsteknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-215037.

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Concrete is essential for the construction industry with characteristic properties that make it irreplaceable in some aspects. However, due to the large volumes consumed and the energy intense cement clinker production it also has a notable climate impact. In order to reach the international and national sustainability goals it is therefore important to reduce the climate impact of concrete structures. There are many ways to influence the environmental impact of concrete and a detailed analysis is one of the actions that could push the industry and the society towards a sustainable development

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Cooley, Amanda. "Estimating the Water Budget of Extratropical Cyclones with the Precipitation Efficiency." Thesis, University of Missouri - Columbia, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13850734.

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<p> Estimating the water budget of three mid-latitude extratropical cyclones is attempted from the perspective of the precipitation efficiency (PE), using a method proposed for the study of convective columns. Using a lagrangian, system-relative volume centered on the surface low pressure, each cyclone was followed for most of its lifetime within a pre-defined volume (7 degrees latitude x 9 degrees longitude, or approximately 700 x 700 km). A comparison is then made of total atmospheric water vapor ingested to total moisture eliminated (as precipitation). We hypothesize that the PE increases w

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Yackey, Carla Renee. "Improving Acceptance, Efficiency, and Quality of Formulated Feeds for Juvenile Yellow Perch (Perca Flavescens)." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1406650600.

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